The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.
    • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      16·
      3 days ago

      you could also say the same about flu. why don’t you post about flu suddenly spiking in winter (surprisingly) and nobody caring about it?

      • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago
        1. COVID-19 spreads more quickly - it is more contagious and is contagious for longer than the flu.
        2. Severe illness is more frequent than the flu.
        3. Long-term effects are far more prevalent and far more severe with COVID.
        4. The ability for a coronavirus to mutate into a variant that is far more contagious and/or far more severe is much higher.
        5. The death rate for the flu is dramatically lower - 1.8 / 100k population than COVID with around a 240-300 deaths per 100k population. More than 1 million people have died from COVID in the US alone vs around 4-6000 per year from the Flu.
        6. People do in fact care about the flu spiking in winter. That’s why vaccines are promoted as much as they are.
        • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          15·
          3 days ago

          is 4 backed by actual research?

          isn’t 5 because of the antivaxx things?

          and, about 6, yes. people care about the flu, but nobody ever says ‘flu is spiking and corporations don’t care’

          • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
            71·
            3 days ago

            You sound like someone who doesn’t really have a point but needs to argue for the sake of arguing. Maybe you can yell at yourself in a mirror - I’m sure it will be more entertaining.

            Edit: And to be clear… I wrote something in my prior comment that most people would interpret as wrong without some qualification or context. I decided to leave it partly out of laziness and partly to see if you would catch it and how. But instead of digging in you are just being confrontational.

            • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              12·
              3 days ago

              yes, I kinda like debating. But, i also think i have a point though. Sorry if it seemed like i was some kind of troll.

              also, was it point 5? it seems kinda wrong to compare yearly deaths to total.